State Budgetary Institution
"Museum of Baikonur cosmodrome history"

Services

More than 7000 people
visit the museum annually. After seeing the exposition and listening to the
tour visitors can learn at least a piece of the great history of space exploration.

Museum guides will
help you to study the expositions of the museum, tell you a lot of interesting
facts of the history of cosmonautics and the history of Baikonur cosmodrome,
inform you about technological processes of preparation of launch vehicles and
spacecrafts, share the information about Baikonur cosmodrome activities.

In the museum you can
take pictures, try on national costumes in the ethnographic hall and take a
video of your visit.

We invite the
youngest visitors to game tours.

For fans of puzzles,
riddles and search tasks entertaining quests and independent and informative
tours are offered.

The museum also
offers a town tour. With the help of the guides you can get acquainted with the
sights of Baikonur town, learn the history of the town, visit the places
connected with the stay of cosmonauts, rocket designers, scientists and
politicians of different countries.

Museum guides can
accompany you during cosmodrome tour. You will visit launch complexes, assembly
and testing buildings, historic places of the cosmodrome. Special routes of
visiting launches sites are developed for such kinds of tours. Guides will make
your visiting cosmodrome more interesting and informative.

Finally our guests
are offered local history tours to the "Korkyt" Memorial complex which is
located 80 kms from Baikonur town. On the way to this place the guides will
tell about unique history of Syr land and the life of a philosopher, musician,
educator of the Turkic peoples Korkyt-ATA and legends connected with him.

Tours are organized
both for groups and individually.

Translation into
English is possible.

The duration of the
museum tour is 1-1,5 hour.

The town tour is
1,5-2 hours.

"Korkyt" Memorial
complex tour is 3 hours.

The cosmodrome tour
is from 3 to 6 hours.

In the museum one can
have a lecture during a year. Topics of lectures in 2018 are the following: